WWII veteran reflects on Memorial Day

Tuesday

May 29, 2007 at 11:38 AMMay 29, 2007 at 11:45 AM

A soldier who survivied the Battle of the Budge worries that Memorial Day's significance is being forgotten.

THIS IS RENO SARTORI...IN 1942...AND THIS IS MR. SARTORI TODAY...ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES WHO FOUGHT IN ONE OF THE WORST BATTLES OF ALL TIME..THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE...AMERICANS VS NAZI GERMANY IN WORLD WAR TWO. MORE THAN 19 THOUSAND AMERICANS WERE KILLED IN THAT BATTLE....RENO WAS ONE OF THE 82 THOUSAND AMERICANS WHO WAS WOUNDED. MEMORIAL DAY IS ALWAYS SPECIAL TO GUYS LIKE RENO SARTORI...BUT UNFORTUNATLY, THEY ARE A VANISHING BREED. THE OLD SOLDIERS WHO GAVE SO MUCH. THE ONES WHO ARE LEFT WORRY THAT MEMORIAL DAY IS BECOMING JUST ANOTHER THREE DAY WEEKEND. TO THE VETERANS IT IS ALL SO SIMPLE. WE OWE OUR WAY OF LIFE TODAY TO THEM.. SO ON MEMORIAL DAY 2007, WE PAUSE TO SAY THANKS TO ALL THOSE VETERANS WHO HAVE GIVEN, AS LINCOLN SAID, THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION TO LIFE AND LIBERTY. BRUCE ASBURY SNN NEWS 6.

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